Improvement in whip-tips



UNITED STATES CLARK R. SHELTON, OF NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT.

IMPROVEMENT IN WHIP-TIPS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 74,435, dated February 11, 1868.

To all 'whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CLARK R. SHELTON, of New Haven, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new Improvement in Whip-Tips; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings and the letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, and represent, in-

Figure l, a side view of the tip; Fig. 2, the same, showing a section ofthe lower end of the tip; and in Fig. 3, the tip and portion of the stock, showing how the two are united.

This invention relates to an improvement in the construction of common driving whips, more particularly to that class which are made of great length and withoutthe lash.

This class of whips (those made very long` and to use without a lash) are expensive, and in use are easily and frequently broken, the break almost invariably occurring within two feet from the upper end, and when so broken their appearance is so much in j ured as to practically destroy the whip.

Various devices are resorted to to repair the whips so broken, that generally practiced being to lap the tip onto the lower part, and to wind the two together. This not only injures the appearance of the whip, but makes a joint which the use of the whip tends to loosen, and soon again renders the whip useless, while the lower portion of the whip remains in perfect condition.

To overcome this difficulty, I make the tip independent of the stock, so that the tip becomes an article of manufacture, and a person breaking the tip has only to remove it from the lower portion and replace it by a new tip; and my invention consists in constructing the tip of a whip so as to be attached to the lower portion of the stock by providing the lower end of the tip with a socket, in the inside of which is cut a screw-thread, so as to be attached to the lower portion of the stock by means of the said thread.

In order to the better understanding of my invention, I will proceed to describe the same as illustrated in the accompanyin g drawings.

A is the tip, which I make of any desirable length, and in the usual manner for making whips. At its lower end-I place a socket, B, which consists of a cylinder fitting closely and secured to the tip, the tip extending about half -way through the cylinder. Within the cylinder andthe lower portion of it I cut a screw-thread, as seen in Fig. 2, and, thus constructed, the tip is complete as an article ot' manufacture. It is placed on the lower portion, C, the upper portion of which is formed so as to t the socket B, and onto this lower portion the tip is screwed. Therefore when one tip is broken another may be attached, and so on, the lower and most costly portion of the whip remaining perfect, and will, by ordinary usage, outlast many tips. Thus at tached, the whip as a whole is practically as perfect as though made of entirely one piece and in the usual manner, and, if anything, stronger at' the point of connection than at any other point. Y

Though I have described my tip as being for that class of whips which are :not provided with a lash, it is equally adapted to all classes of driving-whips.

Having thus fully described my invent-ion, what I claim as new and useful, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A whip-tip provided with a'socket, B, so as to be attached to the stock proper in the manner herein set forth.

. CLARK R. SHELTON. "Witnesses A. J. TIBBITs, J. H. SHUMWAY. 

